Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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A view of a hydraulic mining in operation. The availability of adeqate water supply is one of the essential features in this type of mining. The most ideal situation is one in which the seasonal water supply is readily available in a creek on which...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Tom Edwards, Glennallen, Mr. Henry Eichman, St. Louis Red Cross disaster director, and George Ashby, Civil Defense head for Glennallen - Copper Center area of Alaska. Discussing the ways...
Title taken from caption. View of two members of the National Geographic expedition using a pan attached to a long stick to cook bacon over Fumarole 5 in Katmai Valley, Alaska. Caption also says: "Frying bacon over a fumarole. It is hard to...
United States atlas: maps and charts accompanying the case and counter case of the United States, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
Title taken from caption. View of Sand Point, Alaska, on Popof Island. From verso: "Sandy Point, Schumagin Islands." From May's journal, dated June 29th: "Sand Point was reached at six o'clock. It is a small community comprised of a cannery,...
Article describes the events of February 5, 1945; debate on the floor of the Alaska Territorial Senate regarding the "Equal rights" bill, House bill 14. Roy and Elizabeth Peratrovich testify about conditions in Alaska, along with statements from...